Man with a Maid series
This is one of the most famous flagellation novels originally published in the Edwardian period at the beginning of the twentieth century. The publishing history is quite complex, as there was a sequel to the original and then later additions to the story first published in the 1960’s.
The novel relates the adventures of the hero, Jack, who seduces a series of women by subjecting them to whippings until they submit to him. Some of them resist quite severe punishments while others are less resolute but all of them submit in the end.
The Way of a Man with a Maid
The original work was published by Charles Carrington in two volumes and printed in 1908. The first volume subtitled “The Tragedy” and the second as “The Comedy”
Reprint Bibliography :
(as A Man with a Maid)
Grove Press B-181 Black Cat, 1967
Greenleaf Classics GC-297, 1968
Venus Press V-1119, 1972
Victorian Classics VC-103 1967
Ballantine 23709, 1974
Blue Moon 1978,
An illustrated edition with art by Tim Major was published in 2003 by the Erotic Print Society under their Scarlet Library imprint. This is the most desirable of the reprints.
Books 1 and 2 are in the public domain and are available on Gutenberg and Wikisource. Several publishers have produced ebook versions, notably Harper Collins in their Perpetual Classics series.
Several modern printed editions have been produced with a variety of covers from Masquerade, Running Press, Nexus and others.
The Story
Vol I The Tragedy
- Chapters 1-11 Alice lured to the Snuggery stripped, spanked, birched and seduced, finally submitting to Jack.
Vol 2 The Comedy
- Chapters 1-2 Alice becomes Jack’s willing assistant
- Chapters 3-4 Fanny, Alice’s maid inducted
- Chapters 5-7 Connie Blunt, with Alice and Fanny
- Chapters 8-9 Lady Betty Bashe and her daughter Molly
A Man with a Maid Book III
There is no record of this continuation of the story before the 1960’s when it was most probably created. The first appearance of the additional two books were by Taurus Press of Wilmington, Delaware. In style it resembles the original with some of the same characters while introducing new victims for Jack.The numbering of the series depends on whether Vol 1 and Vol 2 which are usually published together in The Way of a Man with a Maid is counted as one or two books. Sometimes the 3rd volume is referred to as Volume 2.
Bibliography
Taurus Press TP-212 (published as “The Sequel”)
Grove Press Victorian Library B-476 (as A Man with a Maid),
- Chapters 1-13 Marion, Alice’s sister
- Chapters 14-15 Kay, Marion’s maid
- Chapters 16-17 Marion and Kay
A Man with a Maid Book IV
Book IV also dates from the 1960’s and is almost certainly by the same author as Book III. In the original Taurus Press edition it is referred to as “The Conclusion”.
Bibliography
Taurus Press TP-226 1969
Grove Press Victorian Library B-554, 1986
Blue Moon have printed each volumes separately, with Books 1 and 2 in Volume 1, and also an omnibus editions with all four books
- Chapters 1-2 Jack plans to marry Alice, with Fanny and Kay as maids in the household
- Chapters 3-7 Return bout with Molly Bashe introducing her friend, Julia Denton
- Chapters 8-11 Julia Denton
- Chapter 12 Alice returns
- Chapters 13-14 Wilhelmina Ponsonby
- Chapters 15-16 Jack marries Alice, Wilhelmina becomes Connie’s maid.
- Chapter 17 Fanny
- Chapters 18-19 Julia, Molly, Marion and Wilhelmina
Other Titles and Imprints
The popularity of this classic tale has seen it published under different titles by various publishers. The earliest reprint was as The Sweet Surrender of Alice in 1920. Books 1 and 2 were republished by Biblion Classics (Lookout) in 1966 as The Taming in two volumes.
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